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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sat Jan 15, 2022, 09:15 PM Jan 2022

Thousands protest against France COVID vaccine pass

Protesters have taken to the streets in cities across France to reject a law that would see the implementation of tighter restrictions on people not vaccinated against COVID-19, as Parliament continues to debate the draft bill.

Thousands took part in demonstrations on Saturday, with and array of disparate political groups rallying together. In the capital, Paris, where the largest single gathering set off from near the Eiffel Tower, the protest was called by anti-EU presidential candidate Florian Philippot.

Other protests harked back to the “yellow vests” movement of 2018-19 against President Emmanuel Macron’s planned economic reforms, and there were further gatherings in big cities including Bordeaux, Toulouse and Lille.

People in the crowd chanted “no to the vaccine” or “freedom for Djokovic”, seizing on the case of world men’s tennis number one Novak Djokovic, who is fighting the Australian government to compete unvaccinated in the Grand Slam Australian Open.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/thousands-protest-against-france-covid-vaccine-pass/ar-AASOFf1

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Thousands protest against France COVID vaccine pass (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2022 OP
Humans are fucked up! n/t RKP5637 Jan 2022 #1
I have two offices there, manned by locals. DFW Jan 2022 #2

DFW

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2. I have two offices there, manned by locals.
Sat Jan 15, 2022, 09:55 PM
Jan 2022

When I’m not visiting the States, I’m usually in France three or four times a month. Most of the people there seem to think of the anti-vaxxers the same way we do: “ils sont des tarrés dangereux!” (They are dangerous demented people.)

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